A History of the Modern British Ghost Story

Titre:

ISBN (Numéro international normalisé des livres):

9780230316836

Auteur personnel:

Hay, S. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

PRODUCTION_INFO:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Description physique:

VI, 253 p. online resource.

Extrait:

Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.

Terme sujet:

Literature -- Philosophy.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

European literature.

Literature, Modern -- 20th century.

Fiction.

Great Britain -- History.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Fiction Literature.

History of Britain and Ireland.